Kip Drown Quotations

Whenever there's a coaching change, players always have a little apprehension about it. Lauren might have given me a little more credibility at first. But they are all my kids now.

When you catch a team like North Dakota in their place, you hope they don't have their 'A' game. They shot 50 percent from the field, which is excellent. And they shot 32 percent from 3-point range, which is adequate. Of course, they shot 31 3s, so that's great. And they did a good job on the boards.

The problem with a game like this is that people are going to pick up the paper and see the point spread and think it was a complete blowout. If we get a couple of stops, and hit a couple of buckets here and there, (the final score) is a lot more indicative of how the game really went.

People don't realize that she's a great passer, too, and that she's an unselfish player.

I told our kids that we didn't lose the game on Kerry's last shot. We lost the game in the first 20 minutes when we scored only 14 points.

That's as poor a half as we've played all year. But I thought we caught a break because we were only down by nine points. All we had to do was make some shots.

Irene averaged more than 10 points per game this past season and I believe that her best basketball is still ahead of her. We are excited about the physical presence that she brings to our low post game.

Lauren has been a great player for us all year and she came through for us again. What I was really happy with is the way we played defense. To hold them to 49 points is very pleasing.

I watched us put chains on the bus late Thursday night before we went over Wolf Creek Pass, then it was dark when we came back over it on Saturday. That's the worst trip - six hours in the cold bus after a tough loss.

We missed some big free throws in overtime and that bothers me the most. We had our opportunities. We ran the play we wanted to with Kerry and the shot just didn't fall.